There is no contest in Calgary Centre, except in the minds of party spin doctors.

Conservative Joan Crockett is walking away with it now in Alberta.

Harper will sleep well tonite.

Keep telling yourself that, North Report.

The big story of the night is that whereas the NDP didn't even come close to the Conservatives in Durham, the Liberals are likely going to finish a very close 2nd to the Conservatives in the heart of Western Canada. Meanwhile the NDP is down in the single digits in Calgary Centre.

Too soon to say for sure what it means for the next election, but it appears that the Liberals are back in the game and that Mulcair has not caught on fire yet.

There is no contest in Calgary Centre, except in the minds of party spin doctors.

Conservative Joan Crockett is walking away with it now in Alberta.

Harper will sleep well tonite.

Keep telling yourself that, North Report.

The big story of the night is that whereas the NDP didn't even come close to the Conservatives in Durham, the Liberals are likely going to finish a very close 2nd to the Conservatives in the heart of Western Canada. Meanwhile the NDP is down in the single digits in Calgary Centre.

Too soon to say for sure what it means for the next election, but it appears that the Liberals are back in the game and that Mulcair has not caught on fire yet.

The NDP is going to lose Durham. It's going to lose Durham badly. Yet with what's been learned (and achieved) in this byelection (the NDP vote went up by 10% for the second election in a row), the NDP is going to run much more effective campaign in dozens and dozens of previously Liberal-Conservative ridings. The NDP is literally going to push the Liberals off the (Ontario) electoral map. Just like they've done in much of Western Canada. The Liberals will be clinging to a few urban and suburban Ontario enclaves by the very skin of their teeth, while their poll numbers drop through the basement. Tonight the Liberals had their fun in Calgary but they will have hemorraghed even worse than the 2011pocalyse everywhere else.

The Liberal's popular vote is even less in Durham at the moment than they got in 2011.

Nobody cares! The story tonight is Calgary Centre!

Debater, you are wrong you offensive moron! By the way, you are loosing.

Arthur, you should apologize for that. That is name-calling, and really worthy of a moderator to tell you. I haven't called you names. And it's 'losing', by the way.

And if the Liberals finish a close 2nd to the CPC, that's almost as good as a win. It will be the NDP who have lost. Let's look at this objectively.

You are so arrogant. You still haven't apologized to Jan for the abusive, demaning and patroning comments you aimed at here. You won't, because you aren't man enought to. I'll tell you what, you apologize to Jan and I'll apologize to you.

And in the real world Ontario is required to defeat Harper and so far tonite the Liberals have failed miserably in that regard, as the NDP vote is almost double that of the Liberals in Durham, even with their next coronated leader Trudeau having visited the riding.

I would say so far it is a very bad nite for the Liberals.

Debater wrote:

NorthReport wrote:

There is no contest in Calgary Centre, except in the minds of party spin doctors.

Conservative Joan Crockett is walking away with it now in Alberta.

Harper will sleep well tonite.

Keep telling yourself that, North Report.

The big story of the night is that whereas the NDP didn't even come close to the Conservatives in Durham, the Liberals are likely going to finish a very close 2nd to the Conservatives in the heart of Western Canada. Meanwhile the NDP is down in the single digits in Calgary Centre.

Too soon to say for sure what it means for the next election, but it appears that the Liberals are back in the game and that Mulcair has not caught on fire yet.

The NDP is going to lose Durham. It's going to lose Durham badly. Yet with what's been learned (and achieved) in this byelection (the NDP vote went up by 10% for the second election in a row), the NDP is going to run much more effective campaign in dozens and dozens of previously Liberal-Conservative ridings. The NDP is literally going to push the Liberals off the (Ontario) electoral map. Just like they've done in much of Western Canada. The Liberals will be clinging to a few urban and suburban Ontario enclaves by the very skin of their teeth, while their poll numbers drop through the basement. Tonight the Liberals had their fun in Calgary but they will have hemorraghed even worse than the 2011pocalyse everywhere else.

Even though the Liberals are rising in most of the National polls and are poised to increase their level of support in the next election?

If Justin Trudeau becomes Liberal leader, he has the potential to do well. I'm not saying he will become Prime Minister yet, but Mulcair is unlikely to do so either. The Conservatives know Trudeau is a threat - that's why they released an old interview last week before the Calgary by-election. They've seen his rising poll numbers.

"Tories target Trudeau as poll suggests his popularity keeps growing"

Conservatives have launched their first concerted attack on Justin Trudeau — and a new poll may explain why.

The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey suggests the Liberal leadership front-runner's popularity is not the fleeting celebrity phenomenon that the skeptics had assumed.

It's actually increasing and has the potential to siphon off votes from all parties, including the Tories.

The poll was released Thursday just as the Conservatives pounced on a two-year-old television interview to accuse Trudeau of being anti-Alberta.

Forty-two per cent of respondents said they'd be certain or likely to vote Liberal in the next election if Trudeau was at the helm — enough to form a comfortable Liberal majority government.

The Liberal's popular vote is even less in Durham at the moment than they got in 2011.

Nobody cares! The story tonight is Calgary Centre!

Debater, you are wrong you offensive moron! By the way, you are loosing.

Arthur, you should apologize for that. That is name-calling, and really worthy of a moderator to tell you. I haven't called you names. And it's 'losing', by the way.

And if the Liberals finish a close 2nd to the CPC, that's almost as good as a win. It will be the NDP who have lost. Let's look at this objectively.

You are so arrogant. You still haven't apologized to Jan for the abusive, demaning and patroning comments you aimed at here. You won't, because you aren't man enought to. I'll tell you what, you apologize to Jan and I'll apologize to you.

People in glass house much Debater?

What did I say to Jan? I don't remember saying anything offensive.

And that still doesn't excuse your name-calling. It's immature to say that you think it's okay to do it because of some slight I supposedly made to someone else once.

And in the real world Ontario is required to defeat Harper and so far tonite the Liberals have failed miserably in that regard, as the NDP vote is almost double that of the Liberals in Durham, even with their next coronated leader Trudeau having visited the riding.

So far it is a very bad nite for the Liberals and we haven't even got to BC yet.

The Liberal's popular vote is even less in Durham at the moment than they got in 2011.

Nobody cares! The story tonight is Calgary Centre!

Debater, you are wrong you offensive moron! By the way, you are loosing.

Arthur, you should apologize for that. That is name-calling, and really worthy of a moderator to tell you. I haven't called you names. And it's 'losing', by the way.

And if the Liberals finish a close 2nd to the CPC, that's almost as good as a win. It will be the NDP who have lost. Let's look at this objectively.

You are so arrogant. You still haven't apologized to Jan for the abusive, demaning and patroning comments you aimed at here. You won't, because you aren't man enought to. I'll tell you what, you apologize to Jan and I'll apologize to you.

People in glass house much Debater?

What did I say to Jan? I don't remember saying anything offensive.

And that still doesn't excuse your name-calling. It's immature to say that you think it's okay to do it because of some slight I supposedly made to someone else once.

Oh come on Debater, you really think I believe you don't remember. I'd be pretty careful about calling anyone immature if I were you.

Spin it all you like but there is no evidence of any resurgence for the Liberals who are third or fourth in Ontario, losing in Alberta, and are getting absolutely crushed in BC. So much for the "Trudeau" mythology.

The NDP is going to lose Durham. It's going to lose Durham badly. Yet with what's been learned (and achieved) in this byelection (the NDP vote went up by 10% for the second election in a row), the NDP is going to run much more effective campaign in dozens and dozens of previously Liberal-Conservative ridings. The NDP is literally going to push the Liberals off the (Ontario) electoral map. Just like they've done in much of Western Canada. The Liberals will be clinging to a few urban and suburban Ontario enclaves by the very skin of their teeth, while their poll numbers drop through the basement. Tonight the Liberals had their fun in Calgary but they will have hemorraghed even worse than the 2011pocalyse everywhere else.

Even though the Liberals are rising in most of the National polls and are poised to increase their level of support in the next election?

If Justin Trudeau becomes Liberal leader, he has the potential to do well. I'm not saying he will become Prime Minister yet, but Mulcair is unlikely to do so either. The Conservatives know Trudeau is a threat - that's why they released an old interview last week before the Calgary by-election. They've seen his rising poll numbers.

"Tories target Trudeau as poll suggests his popularity keeps growing"

Conservatives have launched their first concerted attack on Justin Trudeau — and a new poll may explain why.

The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey suggests the Liberal leadership front-runner's popularity is not the fleeting celebrity phenomenon that the skeptics had assumed.

It's actually increasing and has the potential to siphon off votes from all parties, including the Tories.

The poll was released Thursday just as the Conservatives pounced on a two-year-old television interview to accuse Trudeau of being anti-Alberta.

Forty-two per cent of respondents said they'd be certain or likely to vote Liberal in the next election if Trudeau was at the helm — enough to form a comfortable Liberal majority government.

The NDP is going to lose Durham. It's going to lose Durham badly. Yet with what's been learned (and achieved) in this byelection (the NDP vote went up by 10% for the second election in a row), the NDP is going to run much more effective campaign in dozens and dozens of previously Liberal-Conservative ridings. The NDP is literally going to push the Liberals off the (Ontario) electoral map. Just like they've done in much of Western Canada. The Liberals will be clinging to a few urban and suburban Ontario enclaves by the very skin of their teeth, while their poll numbers drop through the basement. Tonight the Liberals had their fun in Calgary but they will have hemorraghed even worse than the 2011pocalyse everywhere else.

Even though the Liberals are rising in most of the National polls and are poised to increase their level of support in the next election?

If Justin Trudeau becomes Liberal leader, he has the potential to do well. I'm not saying he will become Prime Minister yet, but Mulcair is unlikely to do so either. The Conservatives know Trudeau is a threat - that's why they released an old interview last week before the Calgary by-election. They've seen his rising poll numbers.

"Tories target Trudeau as poll suggests his popularity keeps growing"

Conservatives have launched their first concerted attack on Justin Trudeau — and a new poll may explain why.

The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey suggests the Liberal leadership front-runner's popularity is not the fleeting celebrity phenomenon that the skeptics had assumed.

It's actually increasing and has the potential to siphon off votes from all parties, including the Tories.

The poll was released Thursday just as the Conservatives pounced on a two-year-old television interview to accuse Trudeau of being anti-Alberta.

Forty-two per cent of respondents said they'd be certain or likely to vote Liberal in the next election if Trudeau was at the helm — enough to form a comfortable Liberal majority government.

Btw, I think the Liberals have moved back into the lead in Calgary Centre. I'm getting some ground reports from the riding.

Did Karl Rove send them to you? I hear Ohio hasn't been called yet.

Nope, unlike Karl Rove, I don't make things up. The people calling in data from polling stations are getting it before it goes on the Elections Canada website. So you should see the Conservative numbers narrow soon.

The NDP is going to lose Durham. It's going to lose Durham badly. Yet with what's been learned (and achieved) in this byelection (the NDP vote went up by 10% for the second election in a row), the NDP is going to run much more effective campaign in dozens and dozens of previously Liberal-Conservative ridings. The NDP is literally going to push the Liberals off the (Ontario) electoral map. Just like they've done in much of Western Canada. The Liberals will be clinging to a few urban and suburban Ontario enclaves by the very skin of their teeth, while their poll numbers drop through the basement. Tonight the Liberals had their fun in Calgary but they will have hemorraghed even worse than the 2011pocalyse everywhere else.

Even though the Liberals are rising in most of the National polls and are poised to increase their level of support in the next election?

If Justin Trudeau becomes Liberal leader, he has the potential to do well. I'm not saying he will become Prime Minister yet, but Mulcair is unlikely to do so either. The Conservatives know Trudeau is a threat - that's why they released an old interview last week before the Calgary by-election. They've seen his rising poll numbers.

"Tories target Trudeau as poll suggests his popularity keeps growing"

Conservatives have launched their first concerted attack on Justin Trudeau — and a new poll may explain why.

The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey suggests the Liberal leadership front-runner's popularity is not the fleeting celebrity phenomenon that the skeptics had assumed.

It's actually increasing and has the potential to siphon off votes from all parties, including the Tories.

The poll was released Thursday just as the Conservatives pounced on a two-year-old television interview to accuse Trudeau of being anti-Alberta.

Forty-two per cent of respondents said they'd be certain or likely to vote Liberal in the next election if Trudeau was at the helm — enough to form a comfortable Liberal majority government.

My favourite line of your defence was: "are poised to increase their level of support in the next election"

Because I'm being objective and saying I don't yet know what is going to happen in the next election - none of us does.

But the above poll certainly shows the potential for Liberal gains, doesn't it?

It does, but only if a handsome, unknown quantity becomes leader. To those that do know Jester Trudea, he is a gaffe-prone flake that thinks he can fake his way through all the speaking parts. I bid thee good luck Debator!

It'd be sickening if the Greens took Victoria. It would be a massive swing to the right and a mandate to do nothing about the sewage system. As far as I can see, the Greens made no positive promises in that riding at all.

Who knew Victoria residents would be this big on doing nothing about raw sewage?

GREENS are having a big night - no doubt about it. Not in DURHAM, no, but they are having a major effect in both CALGARY CENTRE and VICTORIA. They are tied with the NDP in VICTORIA and may be throwing the election to the Conservatives in CALGARY CENTRE.

They may be emerging as a player whether the Liberals & NDP like it or not.

It'd be sickening if the Greens took Victoria. It would be a massive swing to the right and a mandate to do nothing about the sewage system. As far as I can see, the Greens made no positive promises in that riding at all.

Who knew Victoria residents would be this big on doing nothing about raw sewage?

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newest results put the NDP 1 vote ahead. Hopefully, that trend will hold and accelerate. The Greens are only running this close, I think, because the local Liberals voted for them strategically just to mess over the NDP.

GREENS are having a big night - no doubt about it. Not in DURHAM, no, but they are having a major effect in both CALGARY CENTRE and VICTORIA. They are tied with the NDP in VICTORIA and may be throwing the election to the Conservatives in CALGARY CENTRE.

They may be emerging as a player whether the Liberals & NDP like it or not.

You do realise the Liberals comfortably won this riding from 1993-2006? Prior to Denise Savoie the NDP had only held the riding during their 1988 sweep of BC. This is a Liberal (or Conservative) riding much more than NDP

GREENS are having a big night - no doubt about it. Not in DURHAM, no, but they are having a major effect in both CALGARY CENTRE and VICTORIA. They are tied with the NDP in VICTORIA and may be throwing the election to the Conservatives in CALGARY CENTRE.

They may be emerging as a player whether the Liberals & NDP like it or not.

They are a player. They capitalise on disaffection with all established parties.